The MS Office Maestro
Known as The MS Office Maestro, Shelley has been a Microsoft Office trainer for over 20 years, delivering face to face training sessions, presenting at events and training people remotely with various online tools.
Helping administrators keep up to date with Microsoft Office has become a passion.
This is why Shelley set up Tomorrow’s VA – an online training suite of courses for busy assistants, helping them make the most of the software they use every day. From Microsoft Word, to PowerPoint, to Excel and Outlook and the new kid on the block Microsoft Teams.
Shelley is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and holds the COLF (Certified Online Learning Facilitator) and CDOL (Certified Designer of Online Learning) qualifications from The LPI.
Over the last several years Shelley has spoken or presented at a variety of events specifically aimed at PAs EAs and VAs helping them to improve the way they work. Events include The PA Show, Hemsley Fraser – PA and Administrator Conference and the Practically Perfect PA online summit.
The Assistant's Guide to Taming Microsoft Teams
The Assistant's Guide to Taming Microsoft Teams
Learn about Microsoft Teams and how to make best use of it as an Assistant.
You will discover:
– How to find your way around and understand all the different parts of MS Teams
– Understand what you need to have in place when working with external team members
– How to chat with other Team members
– How to set up and attend meetings
– How to collaborate on documents
– How to add other apps to MS Teams such as MS Forms for feedback or Polly for Polls
– How to share your screen and other things in a meeting
And much more.
From Word to PowerPoint: the art of creating slides from a document
From Word to PowerPoint: the art of creating slides from a document
You are handed a document by your executive and asked to turn it into an all singing all dancing PowerPoint slide deck.
Attend this session to learn how to shortcut the process and get that word document into PowerPoint without fuss or frustration.
You will learn:
– The importance of Document Styles in Word
– Why having a template is a brilliant thing
– How to set up your branding in PowerPoint and change the colour scheme
– How to modify the Slide Master in PowerPoint so you are off to a flying start
– How to import the word document to PowerPoint
– How to use SmartArt to tame your bullet points and to create a timeline
End Your Outlook Overwhelm
End Your Outlook Overwhelm
By the end of this half-day course you will be able to manage your inbox and calendar and keep track of your tasks.
Session 1
- – The Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar
- – The To Do Bar
- – Filing your email
- – Quicksteps
- – Preview Attachments
- – Reply with a meeting
- – Send a copy of your calendar
Session 2
- – Add voting buttons
- – Drag and drop
- – The Calendar
- – Calendar Overlay
- – Create an appointment and a meeting
- – Scheduling Assistant
- – Contacts
- – Create a contact group
- – Tasks and To Do items
Enhance your PowerPoint Presentations
Enhance your PowerPoint Presentations
By the end of this half-day course you will be able to create a template to speed up creation of presentations and be able to add extra features to enhance the impact!
In particular you will be able to:
- – Modify the slide master
- – Create your own layouts
- – Create your own themes
- – Templates
Session 1
- – The Slide Master
- – Create a new layout
- – Modify / create a theme
- – Create a template
Session 2
- – Adding and formatting images
- – Work with SmartArt
- – Adding Shapes and Images and creating a Timeline
- – Create an Organisational chart
Manage Your Data in Excel
Manage Your Data in Excel
By the end of this half-day course you will be able to sort and filter data so that you can focus on the information you wish to get out of Excel.
Session 1
- – The Ribbon and Quick Access
- – Toolbar
- – Creating a list
- – Adding rows and columns
- – Headings
- – Sorting and Filtering
- – Conditional Formatting
- – Subtotals
Session 2
- – Format as a Table
- – Table Totals
- – Calculated Columns
- – Introduction to Pivot Tables
Introduction to Microsoft Excel
Introduction to Microsoft Excel
By the end of this half-day course, you will able to produce a basic letter and report.
Session 1
- – The Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar
- – Create a new document
- – Enter and edit text
- – Text formatting, Moving around within a document
- – Saving locally and on a network
- – Print Preview and Printing
Session 2
- – Selecting text with the Mouse and the Keyboard
- – Page Margins and Orientation
- – Adding Headers and Footers
- – Bullets and Numbering
Tables and Mail Merge in Word
Tables and Mail Merge in Word
By the end of this half-day course, you will be able to send a letter to a number of recipients.
Session 1
- – Use Keyboard Shortcuts
- – Add spellings to Autocorrect
- – Create Autotext entries (QuickParts)
- – Create and modify a table
Session 2
- – Create the list of names and addresses in a Word table
- – Use an Excel Spreadsheet as the data source
- – Build the document with Merge fields
- – Complete the merge
Microsoft Excel - Formula and Functions
Microsoft Excel for Beginners
Microsoft Excel for Beginners
By the end of this half-day course you will be able to create and manipulate a simple spreadsheet with basic formulae that calculate your data.
Session 1
- – The Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar
- – Moving around
- – Adding text and numbers
- – Number formats
- – Making your spreadsheet add up
- – Auto Fill to copy data
- – Auto Fill to copy a formula
- – Absolute Cell Reference to fix part of a formula
Session 2
- – Adding Headers and Footers
- – Formatting
- – Borders and Shading
- – Print and Print Preview
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